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Thursday, October 17, 2024 CalKIDS: Helping Students Access and Attainment Higher Ed » Reading time: Six minutes During the 2024 National College Attainment Network (NCAN) National Conference , the S...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 How States Engage K-12 Schools and Districts in Postsecondary Pathways Programming » Reading time: Three minutes Recently, 15 state partners from the National College Attainment Network’s (NCAN) Post...
Monday, October 14, 2024 Updated “4 for Their Future” Brief Offers Approaches for Districts, High Schools » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes An updated National...
Monday, October 14, 2024 New Framework Asks, “How Can Districts Enable Postsecondary Success?” » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes A new framework fo...
Friday, October 11, 2024 NCAN Updates K-12 College & Career Readiness Calendar » Reading time: 2 min. This post was originally published in January 2021 and has been updated in October 2024....
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Reengaging Adults and Some College, No Degree Students to Postsecondary Pathways » Reading time: Three minutes The 2024 National College Attainment Network (NCAN) National Conference was filled t...
Friday, October 4, 2024 New Resource: NCAN, Presidents’ Alliance, TFA, Launch Guide for Supporting Undocumented Students » Reading time: Two minutes Over the course of the last year, the National College Attainment Network (NCAN)...
Monday, September 30, 2024 College Access and Success for Justice-Impacted Students » By Patrick Rodriguez, Co-Executive Director of the Georgia Coalition for Higher Education in Prison and Catherine Brown,...
Friday, September 27, 2024 To AND Through: A Recap of the Postsecondary Success Sessions at #NCAN2024 » By Simone Pringle, Program Associate Reading time: Five minutes While trying to recover from college e...
Monday, September 23, 2024 OneGoal Postsecondary Readiness Rubrics Are Must-See for Every District, School » This post was originally published on October 22, 2020 but has been updated. Bill DeBaun, Senior Director...
Monday, August 12, 2024 The Expanding Impact of Children's Savings Accounts » Reading time: Four minutes Children's Savings Accounts (CSAs) have been gaining traction as a crucial tool for fos...
Monday, July 29, 2024 Earn To Lean Helps Students Save for College » By Kate Hoffman, Founder and CEO, Earn to Learn Reading time: Two minutes College accessibility is top of mind...
Monday, July 22, 2024 CalKIDS Program Tackles Racial Wealth Gap While Helping Make College Affordable » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Three minutes In 2022, California creat...
Friday, June 21, 2024 Rethinking Leadership: Engaging the Whole Staff in Postsecondary Support » By Ally Levy, Senior Director of College Inquiry and Whole School Partnerships, and Richard Robinson, College Inquiry Coac...
Monday, June 10, 2024 Caring for College and Career Readiness Advisors After a Year Like No Other » By Ezequiel Jimenez, Program Intern, and Alessandra Cipriani-Detres, Program Associate Reading time: Six minutes...
Friday, May 31, 2024 It’s Home, But Different: Helping Students Navigate Changing Relationships During College » Reading time: Four minutes As advisors, coaches, and counselors, we play a crucial role in helping students transi...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Free PERTS Tools Can Drive Growth Mindsets, Social Belonging » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Five minutes The National Colleg...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Rethinking Postsecondary Advising: Ensuring Individualized Support for All » By Janice Bloom, Co-Director, College Access: Research & Action (CARA) Reading time: Seven minutes 50...
Monday, May 13, 2024 New State Finance Report: Higher Ed Spending Up, Student Share Down » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Five minutes In a year when National Co...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 How to Offer Summer Supports to Students to Drive FAFSA, Combat Melt » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives, and David LaNore, Program Manager Reading time: Fiv...
Monday, May 6, 2024 Resource Spotlight: Use The Navigator Toolkit to Shift and Support Students’ Mindsets » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes Students’ mindsets...
Monday, March 25, 2024 Building STEAM But Lacking Confidence » Reading time: Seven minutes For decades, there has been significant investment in education to address the need fo...
Friday, March 22, 2024 Rethinking Curriculum: Why Postsecondary Planning Can't Wait Until 12th Grade » By Reid Higginson, Director of Policy Research at College Access: Research & Action (CARA) Reading time: Five mi...
Monday, March 4, 2024 New Research Offers Roadmap for How Child Savings Accounts Can Support Black and Latine Students » Reading time: Three minutes A recent report from National College Attainment Network (NCAN) member Prosperity N...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Rethinking How High Schools Support Postsecondary Pathways » By Janice Bloom, Co-director of College Access: Research & Action (CARA) Reading time: Seven minutes In a...
Monday, November 20, 2023 First Cohort of NCAN CCR Fellows Showcases Successes » Reading time: Six minutes Last August, the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) announced a cohort of 15 C...
Friday, November 17, 2023 Dos & Don'ts for College Advising Post-Ban on Race-Conscious Admissions » Reading time: Three minutes After the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) unfortunately ruled that colle...
Monday, November 13, 2023 Pittsburgh Promise, NCAN Sponsor Roundtable to Address Food Insecurity Among College Students » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy, and Louisa Woodhouse, Policy Associate Reading time: Four...
Monday, November 6, 2023 Unlocking Your Future: Three Opportunities for High Schoolers » By Allison Danielsen, Executive Director, BigFuture Careers and Partnerships at College Board Reading time: Two minute...
Monday, October 23, 2023 Mississippi Course Requirement Engages Students Statewide in CCR » Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Services Reading time: Four minutes States try all kinds of...
Monday, October 2, 2023 Beyond the Bachelor’s: The Promise of Alternative Credentials in Higher Ed » By Sherrodd Williams, Ph.D., CEO at New Futures Reading time: Four minutes In 1947, the Truman Commission prop...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Supporting Future Pathways Starts with Students » By Allison Danielsen, Executive Director, BigFuture Careers and Partnerships at College Board Reading time: Three minu...
Thursday, September 7, 2023 From Kindergarten to College: The First K2C Participants are Off to College and Career » By Shira Markoff, Senior Policy Fellow at Prosperity Now Reading time: Five minutes This article originally a...
Friday, September 1, 2023 Two New Common App Studies Consider "Non-Submitters," Direct Admissions » Reading time: Four minutes Two recent studies using data from the Common App recently consider students’ ap...
Thursday, August 17, 2023 Report Finds CSAs Tripled Nationally in 2022 » Reading time: Three minutes The child savings account (CSA) movement has been growing steadily for years but l...
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